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Fungi bacon and insect burgers: a guide to the proteins of the future

Humanity needs to eat less meat. Here are seven alternatives.
  1. Nicola Jones
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Would you eat a burger enriched with mealworms? Fake bacon sliced from a mass of fermented fungi? Milk proteins extruded by microbes? Maybe you already have. Dozens of companies are now banking on these alternatives to animal protein becoming a regular part of your diet.

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Nature 619, 26-28 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02096-5

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